George P. Doles

George Pierce Doles (14 May 1830-2 June 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
George Pierce Doles was born in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1830, and he became a local businessman and a militia company leader. When his home state seceded to join the Confederate States of America in 1861, Doles joined the Confederate States Army, and he became colonel of the 4th Georgia in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded at Malvern Hill during the Peninsula Campaign and took over Roswell S. Ripley's brigade after Ripley was wounded at Antietam in 1862, leading the brigade at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. His brigade suffered nearly 17% losses at Gettysburg in 1863, and he fought at the Wilderness and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. On 2 June 1864, during the Battle of Cold Harbor, he was shot in the left breast by a Union sharpshooter and killed.